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Name: Separate Is Never Equal : Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
Author: Tonatiuh, Duncan
ISBN: [978-1-41971-054-4,1-41971-054-0]

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Separate Is Never Equal : Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation

Author: Tonatiuh, Duncan

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Follett Number: 0729HM4
Audience: Lower Elementary
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014
Format: 40 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-41971-054-4
ISBN-10: 1-41971-054-0
LCCN: 2013-032089
Dewey: 379.2
Classifications: Nonfiction

Subjects:

Civil Rights Movements

Hispanic Americans Civil Rights

Hispanic Americans Education

Mendez, Sylvia, 1936-

Picture Books for Children

School Integration

Includes bibliographical references (page 39) and index. "Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--Provided by publisher.

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A 2015 Pura Belpr Illustrator Honor Book and a 2015 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Almost 10 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez and her parents helped end school segregation in California. An American citizen of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage who spoke and wrote perfect English, Mendez was denied enrollment to a "Whites only" school. Her parents took action by organizing the Hispanic community and filing a lawsuit in federal district court. Their success eventually brought an end to the era of segregated education in California. Praise for Separate is Never Equal STARRED REVIEWS "Tonatiuh masterfully combines text and folk-inspired art to add an important piece to the mosaic of U.S. civil rights history." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Younger children will be outraged by the injustice of the Mendez family story but pleased by its successful resolution. Older children will understand the importance of the 1947 ruling that desegregated California schools, paving the way for Brown v. Board of Education seven years later." --School Library Journal, starred review "Tonatiuh (Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote) offers an illuminating account of a family's hard-fought legal battle to desegregate California schools in the years before Brown v. Board of Education." --Publishers Weekly "Pura Belpr Award-winning Tonatiuh makes excellent use of picture-book storytelling to bring attention to the 1947 California ruling against public-school segregation." --Booklist "The straightforward narrative is well matched with the illustrations in Tonatiuh's signature style, their two-dimensional perspective reminiscent of the Mixtec codex but collaged with paper, wood, cloth, brick, and (Photoshopped) hair to provide textural variation. This story deserves to be more widely known, and now, thanks to this book, it will be." --The Horn Book Magazine

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